Infosys Aust chief branches out

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The founder of Infosys Australia, the local arm of Indian
outsourcing firm Infosys, has quit the company and plans to launch
a new venture to exploit technology to which he is buying the
IP.

Ananda Rao said the first business which he planned to launch,
Value Chain Integration, would kick off early next year. The
holding company would be named Benchmark Holdings.

He said he was not leaving Infosys on a bad note. He would
possibly direct development work to the company.

Rao set up the Australian arm of Infosys in Melbourne in 1999.
It now has three offices - in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane - and
about 600 staff.

Rao said Value Chain Integration was a global information
solutions company which would help Fortune 2000 organisations and
governments realise improved business performance and decision
making through better use of existing information.

"The company has developed software that simplifies information
integration and turns the concept of a near "real-time" enterprise
into a reality by overcoming the challenges in trying to integrate
information in a distributed environment," he said.

He said the patented software would give workers the right
information at the right time by using distributed information from
various repositories, tools and online services.

"Unlike most existing solutions, this solution is several times
faster to implement," Rao said.